When I was reading the article on the idea of singularity, the whole time I felt as if I were reading something on a science fiction novel. The idea that technology can eventually grow more advanced than us is frightening in some ways. Especially with all these movies on apocolyptic futures where machines overpower mankind. However it also provided not so scary ideas. Such as just simply merging with technology instead of technology taking over the human race. Solving many problems such as age and disease. The one thing that continued to question in my mind was how it says "Creating a work of art is one of those activities we reserve for humans and humans only." Well, what do we really reserve for humans to do now? For example music and autotune. There's already the technology to allow it to make it seem like someone can sing, when they really can't. What do humans do that we don't allow technology to do already? It proposes the idea of what does it mean to be human? When I think of Bernard from "A Brave New World" and how he tries to look for more humane ways of life, he speaks of "being free" but does being free mean being technology free? In the world of "A Brave New World" the humans are bred in factories through test tubes. But does that make them less human? There's no technological advancements physically inside of them. However the way they're raised up almost turns them into machines the way they think and act. That had me thinking that technology wouldn't turn us into machines, we would do that ourselves. Cause of course we have control over this whole situation of technology. Someone has to turn on the computer, right?
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
the rest of my other blog...
i forgot to put this part in my blog
It speaks about technology taking over relegion, at first one might think thats insane. They use time periods called "before ford" and "after ford" in a sense worshiping henry ford? Their god figures name is ford, or not exactly their god figure but their higher power. One might say thats insane but we're the same way in our society now. Religions all have names for their god's or higher power figures. Jehovah's witnesses call their god "Jehovah" , or the religion that worships "alah" or budhist. If someone foreign or from another time would absolutely think we're insane to think our god's name is Jehovah.
It speaks about technology taking over relegion, at first one might think thats insane. They use time periods called "before ford" and "after ford" in a sense worshiping henry ford? Their god figures name is ford, or not exactly their god figure but their higher power. One might say thats insane but we're the same way in our society now. Religions all have names for their god's or higher power figures. Jehovah's witnesses call their god "Jehovah" , or the religion that worships "alah" or budhist. If someone foreign or from another time would absolutely think we're insane to think our god's name is Jehovah.
Monday, September 5, 2011
rhetorical response blog
this is the essay on brave new world
While i was reading the essay i found it was very clear to what the writer wanted me to know. It was almost obvious that the writer was talking about how technology affects the world we live in, also our aspiration for newer,better and nicer things. It talked about things like technology taking over religion, and the aspiration for progress. Which reminded me of all of our lovely class lectures about progress and striving for the perfect world. The one term it uses is technopoly, meaning when technology is the main concern or the surrender of culture to technology. This is a very popular idea that has been expressed through movies such as "terminator". Which was the first thing that came to my mind when i heard the term. Except that it is different, the machines aren't taking us over, their just our main concern, the machines and how they affect our economy. It also said things about getting rid of repairing and only buying new things, striving for improvement or the old and irrelivant. Which reminds me of how i take fancy things i own. Example being when i brake my xbox or my ipod....i want a new one. However other things i take on differently such as if i were to rip my shoes or something not technological id much rather try to fix it then get something new. This makes it seem the writer is writing to anyone who enjoys nice technology. In that case, men. Another thing the essay speaks of is the way students are taught in school. Being taught there is only one answer. Another subject that has come up in our awesome class lectures. Relating to when the writer speaks of the machines being single purpose machines to perform a single task each. The reoccuring idea is that we keep inventing things to improve our daily lives and our economy.
While i was reading the essay i found it was very clear to what the writer wanted me to know. It was almost obvious that the writer was talking about how technology affects the world we live in, also our aspiration for newer,better and nicer things. It talked about things like technology taking over religion, and the aspiration for progress. Which reminded me of all of our lovely class lectures about progress and striving for the perfect world. The one term it uses is technopoly, meaning when technology is the main concern or the surrender of culture to technology. This is a very popular idea that has been expressed through movies such as "terminator". Which was the first thing that came to my mind when i heard the term. Except that it is different, the machines aren't taking us over, their just our main concern, the machines and how they affect our economy. It also said things about getting rid of repairing and only buying new things, striving for improvement or the old and irrelivant. Which reminds me of how i take fancy things i own. Example being when i brake my xbox or my ipod....i want a new one. However other things i take on differently such as if i were to rip my shoes or something not technological id much rather try to fix it then get something new. This makes it seem the writer is writing to anyone who enjoys nice technology. In that case, men. Another thing the essay speaks of is the way students are taught in school. Being taught there is only one answer. Another subject that has come up in our awesome class lectures. Relating to when the writer speaks of the machines being single purpose machines to perform a single task each. The reoccuring idea is that we keep inventing things to improve our daily lives and our economy.
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